Written by

Glenn Guilbeau
gguilbeau@gannett.com

BATON ROUGE - Perhaps now, LSU may welcome a Towson or a North Texas.But the Tigers, who complained of a light schedule hurting their motivation earlier this season, now await the arrival of No. 3 South Carolina for a 7 p.m. game Saturday in Tiger Stadium on ESPN.

The Gamecocks (6-0, 4-0 Southeastern Conference) are coming off a 35-7 demolition of No. 5 Georgia Saturday. LSU (5-1, 1-1 SEC) lost 14-6 at No. 10 Florida Saturday and fell from No. 4 to No. 9 in the nation on Sunday in the Associated Press poll.

"Coldcocked," said the headline in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday morning about ...